When I look for what I’m going to listen to I go backwards. I’m always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out ‘how do I get in the fast lane going that way?’. I’m going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
ERIC CLAPTONI think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
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All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
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